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An Overview of my experience with VMware Cloud Foundation Solution offering from VMware.
September 13, 2022

An Overview of my experience with VMware Cloud Foundation Solution offering from VMware.

Sudipta Banerjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation serves as a complete set of software-defined Compute, Storage, Networking, and security solution. Hence it serves as a cloud-ready platform for creating and managing On Premise cloud solutions. Hence as an organization, I have a solution that reduces the complexities of licenses at the same time I do have a cloud-ready solution from a single vendor. Thus reducing cost giving me a single OEM window to cater to my current and upcoming solution at a reasonable cost
  • Cloud enabled Solution.
  • Support Container based Apps.
  • Cost efficient.
  • Supports both Public and Private Environments.
  • The Deployment is complex.
  • Recommended Number of Physical Nodes is three or more; with less than 3 Nodes, it becomes difficult to install V-SAN.
  • Need for better integration. If we go on the public cloud, it is a huge challenge while integrate with an open source platform.
  • Cost can be marginally reduced. SMB segments still prefer a separate license instead of VCF, or they postpone their purchase plans.
  • My organization has a size of 1300+ employees, using multiple applications and an exchange mail server that is hosted on On-Premise Cloud, hence scalability has not been a challenge.
  • Having hosted my Production environment and Mail exchange Server on VCF, there has been optimum resource utilization with very little scope downtime. Hence have been able to save a lot of funds on Hardware resources.
  • Due to the size of my organization and due the data load, I have been able to save on Resource Utilization and Organization Funds
Although the public Cloud Model follows Opex Costing Model, it actually leads to very high costs also, the infra model in my organization is not suited for a Public Cloud Model. Hence We decided on an On-Premise Model, and the best suited was VMware Cloud Foundation, which is a complete Software-Defined Scale-Out Architecture. I also prefer a Homogenous environment; i.e, support and services from a Single OEM, so that I Can get faster resolutions to my tickets raised.

Do you think VMware Cloud Foundation delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VMware Cloud Foundation's feature set?

Yes

Did VMware Cloud Foundation live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of VMware Cloud Foundation go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy VMware Cloud Foundation again?

Yes

It is best suited for an on-premise cloud solution where customer can shift their entire production environment. Also, the customer has a preference for a Homogenous Infrastructure Environment where budget is not a challenge. It is not at all suited for a Heterogenous Environment, e.g., a Public cloud where integration becomes a huge issue, also in SMB sections where budget is challenging.